Top feedback summary for October 15

[David Rubino]

Note: This is no longer the most recent top feedback summary. You can always find the latest at https://aka.ms/MSEdgeTopFeedback.

Hi everyone, this week’s update is a quick one. This week we’re highlighting one piece of top feedback that’s been addressed: You can now remove the Send feedback smiley button from the toolbar.

To remove it, just right click on it and choose Hide from toolbar and it will disappear from view. Once it’s gone from the tollbar, you can still find the option by opening the Settings and more (…) menu and choosing Help and feedback. You can click the Send feedback option here to open the feedback window, or you can right click on it and choose Show in toolbar to put the smiley back. And of course you can always use Alt+Shift+I to open the feedback window directly.

While this item just landed on our top feedback list last week, the feature request was not new and like many fixes and improvements we started working on it before it had enough support to be considered “top feedback”.

Here is the full updated list of top feedback:

Status	Feedback	On this list for
Addressed	Provide an option to remove the send feedback “smiley” button from the toolbar	New!
Planned for October	A round of improvements to scrolling experience, with more (including performance) to come down the line	8 weeks
Planned for October	Inking for PDF files	8 weeks
Planned for October	Provide the ability to change the title of tiles on the new tab page	8 weeks
Planned for October	Need for better handling of links when there is more than one profile	8 weeks
Planned for October	Option to set a custom photo as the New Tab Page background photo	8 weeks
Planned for November	Enable search in the extensions store	8 weeks
Under Review	Bring the OneNote Web Clipper to the Microsoft Edge extensions store	1 week
Under Review	Opening a new tab is too slow	3 weeks
Under Review	Ask users if they want to close all tabs when they close a browser window	3 weeks
Under Review	Support mouse gestures for common actions like navigation and tab close	4 weeks
Under Review	Provide a transparent theme for the browser frame	4 weeks
Under Review	Add the ability to change the location for news content on the new tab page	6 weeks
Under Review	Some users are asking for a home button in Edge. Since we already have one, we could improve discoverability or just enable it by default.	6 weeks
Under Review	Touchpad two-finger scrolling is sometimes triggering a right click instead	6 weeks
Under Review	The address bar and its text are too big, and should be smaller like Chrome	6 weeks
Under Review	Add an option to hide the Bing search bar on the new tab page	8 weeks
Under Review	Allow the search bar in the new tab page to be configured with other search providers	8 weeks
Under Review	Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge	8 weeks
Under Review	Bring the tab preview feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge	8 weeks
Under Review	Bring the reading list feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge	8 weeks
Under Review	Bring the Ask Cortana feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge	8 weeks
Under Review	Provide an option to set a custom URL for a new tab instead of showing the new tab page	8 weeks
Under Review	Update the user interface with the Fluent Design System	8 weeks
Under Review	Make tabs more square and less rounded, like the current version of Microsoft Edge	8 weeks
Under Review	Support themes from the Chrome Web Store	8 weeks
Under Review	Allow sign-in to the browser with a Google account	8 weeks
Under Review	Provide different options for sorting favorites	8 weeks
Under Review	Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files	8 weeks
Quality Area	Bring more extensions to the extensions store	6 weeks
Quality Area	Edge should use less memory than it does	8 weeks
Quality Area	Edge should use less CPU than it does	8 weeks
Quality Area	Scrolling should feel smoother for web pages	8 weeks
Quality Area	Scrolling should feel smoother for PDF files	8 weeks
Quality Area	Update does not always work reliably	8 weeks

Definitions:

Addressed – Changes to address this feedback are visible to all users in the Canary and Dev channels

Planned for… – We’re working on this and currently plan for it to be addressed in the Canary channel before the end of the month indicated

Under Review – We are reviewing this feedback internally and do not have a plan to share at this time.

Quality Area – We will give extra weight to fixes and opportunities in this area. Please continue to report specific bugs and make specific asks. 

[#2]

Thanks for the update,

Is there Any ETA for when the Edge developer team can make their decisions about the "Under Review" feature requests? most of them are very important to make the Edge browser different than Google chrome and unique.

The Acrylic/Transparent theme, Fluent language design for browser UI, Provide run/open/save/save-as for downloaded files etc.

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Please Don't

1. Integrate the new Edge browser with Google in any way.

2. make the browser address bar smaller like Google chrome.

Please Do

1. make the browser UI Consistent, all the button should be square like the rest of the Microsoft products design.

2. Add Read Aloud for PDFs. currently only available for web pages.

3. Add an ability to auto scroll PDF files. when we are reading an article or book in PDF, the auto scroll would help so we don't need to use our mouse scroll all the time.

[#3]

Glad to see that sync got updated this week for open tabs. Don't allow google accounts to be integrated into the browser because it's completely unnecessary. Also the InPrivate button needs to be painted blue to match edgehtml and internet explorer.

[#4]

@David Rubino 

Environment friendly feedback - aka recycled since none of it has been done and is  blocking for a browser change

1. Google integration - No thanks. I value privacy - not Google profit

2. Fix the favorites icon - it's still the wrong one

3. Add these buttons to the favorites menu 

3. prevent mouse button hijacking

4. Fix Epub

[#5]

Is epub really needed? It doesn't seem to be major enough like PDF is to warrant putting it in. You could always still install a dedicated epub reader.

[#6]

@matsmcp 

Hi,

I believe that screenshot belongs to an old Edge classic version, because on the latest Windows 10, it looks like this:

And about the other buttons (book/reading list/web ink) that you ask to be added to the new Edge, first the Devs must implement the features for them :)

Don't get me wrong, I love web ink and those unique buttons on the browser toolbar. 

to prevent clutter up there, Edge can put all of the extension icons under on drop-down button

[#7]

@HotCakeX, please stop asking for squared design. See where Microsoft as a whole is heading towards. The UI is consistent with new design choices Microsoft is making throughout their products.

[#8]

@eduardobragaxz 

Currently in the Edge insider Canary toolbar, the bookmarks'/favorites' highlight animation shadow is circle while the rest of the shadow highlights are square (e.g the ellipsis menu, extension buttons, collections button, favorites button), that's called inconsistency.

the Edge classic has square UI but this circular UI is coming from google chrome and it's ruining Microsoft's design.

IMO Microsoft should implement their own Fluent Design system to the new Edge insider and get rid of these.

[#9]

@David Rubino Just another regular "vote" for "Bring the tab set aside feature from the current version of Microsoft Edge" which is the #1 thing I miss from Classic Edge (followed by "Ask Cortana"). When each summary post appears, I look hopefully to see this feature move from "Under Review" to "Planned"!

p.s. I was very happy to see Sync Open Tabs finally appear in Dev on my desktop so now I can pull tabs in from my other two systems -- weirdly, it's still not accessible in Canary on my desktop (while both Dev and Canary on my Mac and my laptop all have this).

[#10]

@HotCakeX 

Yes it's a bit older edge.

the four buttons should be in the favorites menu. Only displayed when the menu is displayed - just as in edge classic - or at least as it was 

[#11]

Hi,
I don't have open tabs syncing either,
looks like they haven't made it globally available for everyone yet :(

[#12]

There has been issues with video playback on certain sites for weeks now. YouTube for instance will work fine, but Spectrum online will break up (looks like a bad satellite connection) - Issue is that it works fine with Google Chrome, so seems to be Edge related.

[#13]

Yeah I would like a downloads button up

[#14]

@David Rubino 

Thanks for update.

We really need history synchronization, please develop it.

[#15]

@David Rubino 

What I'm rooting for:

• Native gestures would be amazing. +5
• Fixing the new tab slowness (Settings is oddly a terrible offender; see my tests here) +5
• Changing/removing Bing Search from the home page. Bing isn't the only "secure" search provider.+1 

[#16]

@HotCakeX
Can't agree more
Edge is Microsoft Edge, it's not another Google chrome.

BTW @David Rubino
Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files

[#17]

@David Rubino thanks a lot for the tab sync functionality. That was the last bit I was missing to make my edge experience complete. Can I ask for one small improvement though. Would it be possible to see the opened tabs on History page (edge://history/all)? It's quite cumbersome to have to go to the menu to open tab from another device.. 

[#18]

@David Rubino - make all UI elements consistently round or square. Change the border radius of all elements to whatever the Windows UI team has decided on ;)

Currently, the favorites bar hover looks like this:

and it simply doesn't "fit" with the rest the UI.

[#19]

@David Rubino 

Latest update is causing Edge to crash/close when opening a new tab to some (most) links to a new web page.

If I right click on the link and copy & paste it to the address bar and then go to the web page, it works fine.

[#20]

@Mapantz Yes, the bug appeared in Canary a few days ago and is now in the Dev version.

[#21]

I think you have to wait until the next Dev update in 6 days to receive the fix, latest Canary update already fixed it

[#22]

I am getting the same too. Also please note that yesterday while I was playing a radio station I was getting BSOD. Guys Please fix it @Mapantz @

[#23]

@David Rubino 

Thanks for update! 

The favicon that appeared while pages were loading is gone, won't it come back in other updates?

[#24]

@yanngrylls 

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@yanngrylls wrote:

@David Rubino 

Thanks for update! 

The favicon that appeared while pages were loading is gone, won't it come back in other updates?

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about that, some people here thought it was a bug (while it actually was a new feature), so the developers removed it due to Some people's complains.

I liked it though

[#25]

@HotCakeX 

Could come back as an option in appearances.

[#26]

I hope so, there was a flag for called the new tab loading animation or something like that but it's removed as well

[#27]

So glad to see "Provide run / open / save / save as options when downloading files" is officially under review. Well beyond any other feature still on the Under Review list, this is my highest remaining priority. If you're looking for reasons to prioritize or decide to do/not do some of those:

For users like me who always want to be asked where to save, this is effectively a necessity for a file we only want long to run it or read it once. Otherwise, we have to pick a location for a file we don't want to keep and then recall where we saved the file (or look it up through Edge) to navigate back there to delete it. For temp files like this, we need to preserve this long-standing capability from IE and Edge. Please.

Ideally, when a user selects to starts to a download in Edge, before the user has selected a save location, the system should start immediately downloading to a temp directory. If the user doesn't select a destination it either stays in the temp folder or moves to Downloads (I don't care which) and copy it from Temp to final destination when download completes, but if the user selects Open or Run, then it never leaves the temp folder saving both the step to select a Save location and avoiding clogging up a user folder. Then, it should either be deleted right away or following the standard clean-up processes for files in the Temp directory.

This would make using Edge much easier. That it's currently missing this feature is the main reason I still switch back to the old Edge when I know I'll be doing file downloading, but more often than not, I stay in the new browser and just grumble that I can't open or run directly (because changing browsers just to open or run a file is an even bigger hassle), so if you're looking at telemetry data, at least for me, it won't accurately reflect my preferences.

[#28]

Is anything being planned to fix the "hide sites" that keep showing up on my "customized" feed? The sites are listed under the hidden sites section of my custom choices. Yet, articles regularly appear on my feed page. Very annoying.

[#29]

@Colin - 

Let's make a bigger voice and let the development team know what the user needs.

[#30]

@David Rubino  I would still like Edge to be able to generate passwords when you setup accounts on sites like chrome does, this is a great feature to ensure we use complex passwords instead of using the same one over and over.

[#31]

@David Rubino Feature Request : Fullscreen Tab Navigation

 Dear Good people at Microsoft,

I kindly request you to improve Tab Navigation while using Full screen. Firefox has made their navigation such a joy to use if you're working on multiple tabs as you can see in the images below. If you have multiple tabs and you want to move to the next full screen tab, all you need to do is to hover your mouse to the tab area, and you'll be able to navigate to the next full screen tab without having to exit, previous tab returns back to full screen.

Microsoft Edge on the other hand requires you to exit full screen on the current tab in order to navigate to the next tab. You have to click full screen button to exit or press F11 THEN Click full screen button again or press F11 to open the next tab. There's just too much unnecessary clicks and pressing buttons if you have work that involves a lot of going back and forth.

Firefox has a decent implementation that improves ease of use. I kindly ask you to relay this information to Edge developers for consideration and implementation. It will be one more reason that Microsoft will give us to keep sticking with Edge instead of jumping back to Firefox.

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Firefox Full screen Tab Navigation

Firefox Fullscreen Navigation

Microsoft Edge Full screen tab navigation

[#32]

@David Rubino I would love to see Google Account integration. People who don't want it can simply not use the feature.

[#33]

What advantages do you think that would bring?

[#34]

@HotCakeX Bookmark syncing between edge and chrome, web history syncing with google. And all the other kinds of syncing.

[#35]

@KoshyG 

Google is a data mining company, even if users don't use Google services on Edge browser, the fact that they will be inside Microsoft Edge browser is problematic. lots of people choose Microsoft Edge to get away from Google. Microsoft spent lots of time scrapping Google services and tools from the Chromium source and create a Google-free browser. that doesn't make slightest sense to bring them back.

also if syncing bookmarks is the case, users can already import them from browser to browser using the built in options. and if anything, Google must add Microsoft account support to their browser First.

[#36]

I want it painted the same as my system-wide Windows Accent Color, actually.

[#37]

@Henry-Williams1889 

The old Edge has same feature

[#38]

@David Rubino 

I'm also voting for the 'set aside' feature of the old Edge because as a student I found myself and I think many more being very appreciatable about that one.

Also the ability to draw on web pages or even an pdf is really helpful for daily tasks.
Right now I'm fine using the old edge for that kind of task but for future inprovements on the new one are those ones a must have.

Also I'm seeing more battery usage on the new Edge the old one is still king in this scope.

I don't know how much you guys can improve that one because of the new architecture but maybe introducing a low power mode would be an option.

Keep going. :thumbs_up:

[#39]

@David Rubino 

I've sent to you several times feedback about the Feedback tool in Edge Canary, it doesn't show the screenshot, you always get a black screen.  In Edge Dev work perfectly, I would like to take this issue in consideration because it's hard not to use screenshots to explain anything mostly if you're not an english native like me.

I hope you check this.

Great job, loving Edge :)

[#40]

I've been having the same problem for a while now..

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Discussions/Bug-Send-Feedback-function-inside-Edge-insider-ca...

[#41]

@HotCakeX 

I miss the web inking as well, I tried the "OneNote Web Clipper" and do not think it is as good as the Original Edge integration with OneNote. I bet not enough people use it, but for us Surface Pro users I bet the acceptance rate is a lot higher.

I'm hoping that the Web Clipper add-on is just a stepping stone to the 'full integration'. We can snag a clip without needing the extension :(

[#42]

I agree with you, they should bring back the web inking.

web clipper add on is just supposed to be a solution for non-Microsoft browsers such as google chrome. Edge should have its own integrated and full featured web inking.

[#43]

A lot of folks would disagree with you (myself included) but more importantly we shouldn't be telling others not to share the feedback they have on a post dedicated for feedback.

@eduardobragaxz 

[#44]

What are you referring to?

[#45]

I was replying to your reply to the post quotes below. I thought that it would have post it inline with your reply, which it did not, sorry for the confusion.

"@HotCakeX, please stop asking for squared design. See where Microsoft as a whole is heading towards. The UI is consistent with new design choices Microsoft is making throughout their products."

[#46]

I only said that because I thought he was referring to squares as in the tiles, with pointy edges, and not squares with rounded corners. It's useless to ask for stuff like that.

[#47]

Okie I just want a nice design with Fluent design language elements (square/circular anything) and Acrylic/transparent toolbar, nothing else :)

[#48]

Please bring back support for epub reader which is one of the best I've used. Also bring the search and contents for pdf in the old edge.

[#49]

@mingle105 

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@mingle105 wrote:

Please bring back support for epub reader which is one of the best I've used. Also bring the search and contents for pdf in the old edge.

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Epub supporting is ending in classic Edge and they're not going to add it to the new one, PDF is a better and alternative format, you can easily convert your Epub files to PDF, almost all books these days offer PDF version.

also there is already search in PDF available

[#50]

@HotCakeX, EPUB and PDF are entirely different beasts. PDF is page based and includes page-based formatting, a fixed aspect ratio, etc. PDF is for printing. EPUB is flowable, like HTML, and does not have "pages" as such, fluidly changes between portrait and landscape (or any other aspect ratio). Yes, it can be printed, like a web page, but unlike in a PDF, the user can typically change the font size, background colors, etc. 

Yes, you could print an EPUB, like a web page, to PDF, but because they're such different systems, that destroys all the flexibility of the original EPUB.